Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will have trouble persuading his countrymen that they can profitably enlarge the already sizable expeditionary force by as much as 40%. Moreover, Hanoi, with 350,000 of its 410,000 regulars still in the North, could easily respond by sending a few more divisions. A dramatic victory would help Johnson to make his case-but it may be difficult for U.S. commanders to produce that kind of victory without considerably more troops...
Feeling that the commission, which he appointed himself, had slighted the Administration's efforts to help Negroes, Johnson all but ignored the study. He did not invite the commissioners to the White House, as many expected him to, for release of the report, pointedly refrained from commenting on it publicly for three days. When he did bring himself to mention it, before a bankers' meeting on the urban crisis, it was with faint praise. The report "is one of the most thorough and exhaustive studies ever made," said the President. "I don't ask you to embrace...
...Unless the Federal Government and the state government step in and help, I doubt very much whether there is any kind of a future for the city of Newark." Said San Francisco's Mayor Joseph Alioto: "We have the problems and everybody else has the money." They see at least a partial answer to their current budgetary woes in the commission's recommendations, many of which call for large infusions of federal funds to the cities...
...urging him to become an official candidate. However, there was difficulty in lining up a group broad and deep enough to make such a call meaningful. To have a petition come only from the party's liberal wing and signed principally by Easterners might hurt Rockefeller more than help him. What he needs is a summons from the party's center. Kentucky Senator Thruston Morton listed the progressive qualities that the G.O.P. candidate should have, and the description seemed to fit only Rockefeller. But Morton declined to name him. Said one Rockefeller recruiter: "Everybody has an excuse...
...Indian!" have been raised ever since the red man lost his wars against the U.S. cavalry. Johnson's document, however, was the first presidential message ever to deal specifically with the subject. The President requested $500 million in federal programs, a boost of 10% over present outlays, to help "provide a standard of living for Indians equal to that of the country as a whole." Items would cover 10,000 Indian children under Head Start, set up a "model community school system," pay for 2,500 new houses a year, allocate $112 million in health projects, provide 600 more...